Full name: The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go: A Novel

Author: Amy E. Reichert Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Chick lit, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781501154942 150115494X

Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there's no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G's, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother's failing health and her daughter's rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go... Similar books: The Perfect Son by Barbara Claypole White Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagan Digging In by Loretta Nyhan The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand I Liked My Life by Abby Fabiaschi Broken Pieces by Kathleen Long The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley Light on Snow by Anita Shreve The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan Not Perfect by Elizabeth LaBan The Mother's Promise by Sally Hepworth All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner Henry's Sisters by Cathy Lamb The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse